AG Lynch has spoken for group that got jihad erased from counterterror training

On October 19, 2011, Farhana Khera of Muslim Advocates delivered a letter to John Brennan, who was then the assistant to the president on National Security for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism.

The letter was signed by the leaders of virtually all significant Islamic groups in the United States: 57 Muslim, Arab, and South Asian organizations, many with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), Islamic Relief USA, and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC).

The letter denounced what it characterized as U.S. government agencies’ “use of biased, false and highly offensive training materials about Muslims and Islam.” It emphasized that this was an issue of the utmost importance:

The seriousness of this issue cannot be overstated, and we request that the White House immediately create an interagency task force to address this problem, with a fair and transparent mechanism for input from the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities, including civil rights lawyers, religious leaders, and law enforcement experts.

The task force was needed because:

[W]hile recent news reports have highlighted the FBI’s use of biased experts and training materials, we have learned that this problem extends far beyond the FBI and has infected other government agencies, including the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Councils, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Army. Furthermore, by the FBI’s own admission, the use of bigoted and distorted materials in its trainings has not been an isolated occurrence. Since last year, reports have surfaced that the FBI, and other federal agencies, are using or supporting the use of biased trainers and materials in presentations to law enforcement officials.

Khera also complained about my work: that my books could be found in “the FBI’s library at the FBI training academy in Quantico, Virginia”; that a reading list accompanying a slide presentation by the FBI’s Law Enforcement Communications Unit recommended my book The Truth About Muhammad; that in July 2010 I “presented a two-hour seminar on ‘the belief system of Islamic jihadists’ to the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Tidewater, Virginia”; and that I also “presented a similar lecture to the U.S. Attorney’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, which is co-hosted by the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office.”

These were supposed to be terrible materials because I was supposedly bigoted and hateful. However, many of the examples Khera adduced of “bigoted and distorted materials” involved statements that were simply accurate. The only distortion was Khera’s representation of them.

For instance, Khera stated:

A 2006 FBI intelligence report stating that individuals who convert to Islam are on the path to becoming “Homegrown Islamic Extremists,” if they exhibit any of the following behavior:

“Wearing traditional Muslim attire”

“Growing facial hair”

“Frequent attendance at a mosque or a prayer group”

“Travel to a Muslim country”

“Increased activity in a pro-Muslim social group or political cause”

Well, the FBI intelligence report Khera purported to be describing didn’t actually say that. Rather, it included these behaviors among a list of fourteen indicators that could “identify an individual going through the radicalization process.” Other indicators included:

“Travel without obvious source of funds”

“Suspicious purchases of bomb making paraphernalia or weapons”

“Large transfer of funds, from or to overseas”

“Formation of operational cells”

Khera had selectively quoted the list to give the impression that the FBI was teaching that devout observance of Islam led inevitably and in every case to “extremism.”

Despite the factual accuracy of the material about which they were complaining, the Muslim groups signing the letter demanded that the task force, among other actions:

“Purge all federal government training materials of biased materials.”

“Implement a mandatory re-training program for FBI agents, U.S. Army officers, and all federal, state and local law enforcement who have been subjected to biased training.”

They wished to ensure that all law enforcement officials ever learn about Islam and jihad would be what the signatories wanted them to learn — and Brennan was amenable to that. He took Khera’s complaints as his marching orders.

In a November 3, 2011, letter to Khera that — significantly — was written on White House stationery, Brennan made no attempt to defend counter-terror materials and procedures. He instead accepted Khera’s criticisms without a murmur of protest and assured her of his readiness to comply:

Please allow me to share with you the specific steps we are taking to ensure that federal officials and state, local and tribal partners receive accurate, evidence-based information in these crucial areas.

Brennan assured Khera that all her demands would be met:

Your letter requests that “the White House immediately create an interagency task force to address this problem,” and we agree that this is necessary.

He then detailed other specific actions being undertaken, including “collecting all training materials that contain cultural or religious content, including information related to Islam or Muslims.” In reality, this material wouldn’t just be “collected”; it would be purged of anything that Farhana Khera and others like her found offensive. Honest, accurate discussion of how Islamic jihadists use Islamic teachings to justify violence would no longer be allowed.

The alacrity with which Brennan complied was unfortunate on many levels. Numerous books and presentations that gave a perfectly accurate view of Islam and jihad were purged. Brennan was complying with demands from quarters that could hardly be considered authentically moderate.

Four-and-a-half years later, this entrenched policy of the U.S. government ensured that people such as Omar Mateen simply cannot be identified as risks. The administration is bound, as a matter of policy, to ignore what in saner times would be taken as warning signs. And Loretta Lynch speaks at Muslim Advocates events. That explains a great deal.

Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Loretta Lynch, have worked with an organization dedicated to interfering with law enforcement efforts to monitor activities at the most radical mosques.

Lynch and DOJ Civil Rights Division head Vanita Gupta have appeared at gala events for an organization called Muslim Advocates. The George Soros-funded charity has badgered the New York City Police Department away from monitoring the most radical mosques in the city.

The organization is also responsible for rewriting training materials for federal law enforcement to decouple the role of radical Islam from terrorist acts. An inter-agency working group comprised of multiple federal law enforcement agencies in 2014 adopted this whitewash urged by Muslim Advocates.

The DOJ’s short-lived effort to airbrush Islam out of the 911 tapes from Orlando shows you how far they will go to twist the truth about what is causing these attacks. I appeared on Fox and Friends today to discuss the organization and the latest. (Video here).

Civil Rights Division head Gupta appeared at the sold-out annual gala event for Muslim Advocates in Millbrae, California. Muslim Advocates lobbies the administration heavily to oppose any link between terrorist acts and radical Islam, and opposes monitoring of radical mosques. Gupta told the crowd:

To anyone who feels afraid, targeted, or discriminated against because of which religion you practice or where you worship, I want to say this — we see you. We hear you. And we stand with you. If you ever feel that somehow you don’t belong, or don’t fit in, here in America, let me reassure you you belong.

Muslim Advocates also conducts recruitment and training for lawyers designed to help FBI terrorist targets and interviewees navigate the interviews. Their annual report states:

Throughout the year we grew our internal volunteer referral list for FBI interviews. Today, the list is over 130 lawyers nationwide who are ready and able to assist community members contacted by the FBI.

Thanks for publishing all this information, Robert. I pray that you will not be either assassinated or arrested and imprisoned on false charges. I doubt that you would have any friends in the current Administration. They will have to come for you eventually. There is terrible evil supporting the promotion of the Islamic overthrow of the US and the world.

The Brexit victory gives us hope. We saw all the opponents of Brexit. Now we know their names.

I’ll never forget an interview with John Brennan in late 2011 when the purge of Islamic reference in training manuals had begun and Brennan said in a condescending retort to a reporter’s question (paraphrasing) “We (govt.) are not concerned with the MOTIVATION of the terrorists… We must focus on their ACTS…”

You hit the nail right on the head about George Soros he is a sociopath that causes problems for any country he is near. And who do you think is supporting the Hildabeast of course George Soros. He should just change his name to the Anti Christ. As far as I know he loves to make money from the countries he destroys. He worked for the Nazi’s as a kid and he is still a piece of crap today.

Do Loretta Lynch’s Ties with ‘Muslim Advocates’ Org Explain Her Whitewash of Orlando?

My 2 cents:

They certainly can. If one looks at the case with the lenses of Obama as an anti-colonialist and as a black man who was born in the middle of the Civil Rights movement grew up, and Loretta Lynch as a black woman who was born around the same time as Obama it’s easy to make a case stating that muslims are presenting themselves as the victims of Western imperialism and are facing the same kind of discrimination as African-Americas once did, striking their blind spots and tugging at the right chords.

Muslim Advocates complained of: “…the use of bigoted and distorted materials in its trainings”

That simply means using training manuals that quote from Islamic source texts and jihad books and interpret them ACCURATELY so that Western people unacquainted with Islam can quickly assimilate the contradictory teachings of Islam and understand its DUPLICITOUS nature.

Loretta Lynch is complicit and culpably negligent in helping to BLINDFOLD investigators so that they are unable to see JIHAD. That made it easier for our enemies to infiltrate and conceal their intentions, as well as easier to trick investigators who are not trained in the jihad doctrine and kafir doctrine of Islam…two doctrines that are the TIPOFFS to locate a jihadist or sympathizer.

The Islamic groups did get one thing right in their letter; they were correct in saying that “the seriousness of this issue cannot be overstated.” That’s why the expulsion of Robert Spencer and other learned and courageous experts on Islam (like Stephen Collins Coughlin) as military and federal law enforcement trainers, in response to demands from these terrorist front groups was such a travesty. In a nutshell, the White House and Brennan should have told these Muslim Brotherhood thugs to p*** off. I hope Trump makes an issue of this at some point.

Loretta is one of them and not one of us…She is radicalized in an odd way,…she thinks she is one of them while then knows she is a kuffar and can’t be trusted…The whole thing is theater with Allah as director…

The BIG problem is that Liberals are at heart trying to give everyone a ‘fair shake’ & understanding of their issues. They do not realize that Islam is not just another religion – this cult is a THREAT to our very existence. I am constantly having people tell me that is a silly idea – people are not evil, they don’t plot & scheme to kill others or try to take over society. They think that western civilization is so superior that no-one could ever be plotting to subvert it – after all that same Western lifestyle lets Muslims exist in our culture, so why would they be a threat to us – we even listen carefully to other religions, to what they need, and try to make them feel comfortable !
Sure – that is lovely for Buddhists or Falun Gong who are NOT a threat to Anyone else – but Islam is not a religion but a whole lifestyle, and has NO tolerance of anyone else. It is high time we all started making a BIG noise about the reality that is this cult – I am writing these facts into comments in every newsletter on the subject – sometimes I get de-listed because of what I say, but it is really important that we are all awake to what is happening and altho I do not support Mr. Trump he is right on this one thing – there is a big danger facing us from the leaders & extremists of Islam, (little guys are innocent until radicalized), but the threat IS staring us right in the face.

I doubt that many FBI agents really accept the notion that Islam has nothing to do with the mass slaughterings by Muslims. The main result of the scrubbing is more likely to be a delayed recognition of the terrorism source followed by loss of respect for leadership. They will eventually see the fake wizard behind the curtain.

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